Rulemaking for Residential Refrigerators and Freezers Test Procedure

The Department of Energy (DOE) conducted a rulemaking to amend the test procedures for residential refrigerators and freezers to account for ice making energy use and to more completely account for the energy use of products with certain features.

The residential refrigerators and freezers test procedures rulemaking docket EERE-2012-BT-TP -0016 contains all notices, public comments, public meeting transcripts, and supporting documents. For the latest information on the planned timing of future DOE regulatory milestones, see the current Office of Management and Budget Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. All planned dates are preliminary and subject to change.